22 Chilling Pictures Of Life At Japanese Internment Camps
During the 1940s, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were relocated by the US to internment camps during World War II.
During World War II, the United States detained more than 110,000 Japanese Americans, regardless of their citizenship, and relocated them to one of 10 designated internment camps for the duration of the war. It is considered one of the largest violations of civil liberties in the nation, and in 1988, Congress issued a formal apology and offered restitution to the survivors and their families.
Here's a chilling look back of that period:
A US flag flies at a Japanese-American internment camp, which is surrounded by mountains in Manzanar, California, during World War II in July 1942.
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Mrs. Shigeho Kitamoto and her children are evacuated along with other Japanese from Bainbridge Island in Washington State, on Mar. 30, 1942. Corporal George Bushy, member of the military guard which supervised the departure of 237 Japanese for California, gives her a hand with the youngest.
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A large sign reading "I am an American" is placed in the window of a store in Oakland, California in March 1942. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, was to be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war.
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